{{Short description|New Zealand artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}

{{Infobox artist | name = Caroline Valpy | birth_name = Caroline Penelope Jeffreys | birth_date = {{birth year|1804}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1884|10|30|1804|df=y}} | birth_place = Kanpur, India | death_place = Mornington, Dunedin, New Zealand | children = Ellen Jeffreys, Catherine Fulton, Arabella Valpy, Juliet Valpy, William Henry Valpy Jr. and Caroline Hensley | spouse = William Henry Valpy }} '''Caroline Penelope Valpy''' (née '''Jeffreys'''; 1804 – 30 October 1884) was a British-New Zealand artist.

== Biography == Caroline Valpy{{refn|group=note|name=first|Erroneously called Mrs Catherine Valpy in Platts (1980)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeffreys, Caroline |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22413530 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}</ref>}} was born Caroline Penelope Jeffreys in Kanpur, India in 1804 to Reverend Richard Jeffreys, chaplain to the East India Company.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Platts |first=Una |title=Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook |publisher=Avon Fine Prints Limited |year=1980 |pages=239}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Caroline Valpy |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Caroline-Valpy/6000000036029490822 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=geni_family_tree |date=July 1804 |language=en-US}}</ref> She was sister to Reverend Charles Jeffreys.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jeffreys, Caroline |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22413530 |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> Valpy married William Henry Valpy in India.<ref name=":1" /> They had six children: Ellen Jeffreys, Catherine Fulton, Arabella Valpy, Juliet Valpy, William Henry Valpy, Jr. and Caroline Hensley.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ajax list |url=http://www.ngaiopress.com/ajaxlist.htm |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=www.ngaiopress.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Book of New Zealand women = Ko kui ma te kaupapa |date=1991 |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |others=Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold, B. R. Williams |isbn=0-908912-04-8 |location=Wellington, N.Z. |pages=702 |oclc=28180678}}</ref>

They moved to England in 1837, before coming to Dunedin, New Zealand aboard the ''Ajax'' in 1849.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=William Valpy |url=http://www.toituosm.com/collections/smith-gallery/wall-1/william-valpy |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=Toitū Otago Settlers Museum Official Website |language=en-nz}}</ref> They lived at Forbury, Dunedin,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> close to the current suburban road, Valpy Street.

Valpy and her daughters, especially Ellen, were known to be talented artists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Entwisle |first=Rosemary |date=1990 |title=Jeffreys, Ellen Penelope |language=en |work=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1j2/jeffreys-ellen-penelope |access-date=17 February 2023}}</ref> They are described as having filled numerous notebooks with drawings and watercolours.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brenssell |first=Angela |date=February 1990 |title=Salute to Otago Artists |url=https://otagosettlers.org.nz/publications/newsletters/view/february-1990- |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=otagosettlers.org.nz |page=3}}</ref> Valpy's artwork is represented in the Otago Early Settlers' Association, Dunedin.<ref name=":0" /> Valpy's artwork, ''Early Dunedin 1851'', is also recorded as being reproduced in a 1948 calendar for July/August 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd: A century of service [the contribution of Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd to the Centennial of the Province of Otago]. 1948. |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/38446970?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-128193&search%5Bpath%5D=items |access-date=17 April 2023 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}</ref>

She died on 30 October 1884 in Mornington and is buried in Dunedin Southern Cemetery with her daughter Arabella Valpy and granddaughter, Jessie Mackworth.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 October 1884 |title=Death |pages=2 |work=Evening Star |issue=6737 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18841031.2.4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Council |first=Dunedin City |title=Cemeteries search – Dunedin City Council |url=https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=99621&type=Burial |access-date=17 February 2023 |website=www.dunedin.govt.nz |language=en}}</ref>

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